Open Education Resources at UMass Amherst Seeking Alternatives to High-Cost Textbooks Who here knows what this is? And has somehow been involved? Faculty Forum Open Access Week 2014 Marilyn Billings and Charlotte Roh

Textbook Trends “I stopped buying textbooks my second semester here.” The cost of textbooks has gone up and everyone is worried about it. Last year the Dept. of Ed put out announcements regarding the need to shift to digital resources to 1) help alleviate the cost of textbooks and 2) prepare our students to be technology literate. And I can use these 2 images two demonstrate these points because of fair use. “I stopped buying textbooks my second semester here.” – Marieme Traoreh, Class of 2014

Student Learning Students spend an average of $1,200 on textbooks and supplies a year. This is 79.8% of a student’s summer earnings if working full-time at Massachusetts minimum wage 65% of students surveyed have decided not to buy a textbook due to its cost. http://masspirgstudents.org/campaigns/ma/make-textbooks-affordable

Open Educational Resources: The 4R Framework Reuse Revise Remix Redistribute Educational resources that are freely available for any of these things that you do online anyway.

http://guides. library. umass http://guides.library.umass.edu/oer Open Educational Resources Guide at UMass Amherst

Open Education Initiative Fall 2014 http://goo.gl/forms/NRH9lQTF2L